All current Food Alliance certifications will continue under the group’s previously existing terms. Food Alliance workers will begin conducting new farm and facility inspections in October.

“We’re all committed to third-party certification to support our brands,” said Karl Kupers, a founder of Shepherd’s Grain flour company who’d sought to keep the group going, in a release. “The question I asked is, ‘Is there another program that credibly covers both social and environmental issues the way that Food Alliance does?’ We concluded pretty quickly that there wasn’t.”

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Robert S. Wiggins has joined Lane Powell as a Shareholder in the Corporate/M&A Practice Group. Wiggins is a well-known lawyer, entrepreneur, and investor with more than 30 years of experience leading and advising established and emerging companies in the Pacific Northwest. Wiggins will focus his practice on offering outside general counsel services, including general corporate and board representation, business transactions and capital events.